[nagdu] Full Body Scanning Machines

Thu Nov 18 19:36:41 UTC 2010

Oh Mike, what a silly dog!  I bet she's just the cutest thingg!
Tracy

> The best is when Africa totally flips on her back, all four paws in the
> air,
> and starts nibbling on a TSA agent's fingers.  Even the other agents stop
> what they are doing and come over to get in on the act.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Margo and Arrow
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 7:54 AM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Full Body Scanning Machines
>
> Arrow thinks the agents wish to play with him and he doles out generous
> kisses and tries to get in agents' laps.
>
> margo and Arrow
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users"
> <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 8:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Full Body Scanning Machines
>
>
> I use the same method as Mike.  Benny loves the pat-down.  He's apt to
> hand out free kisses to the person doing the patting.
>
> It's a considerable relief to me to know I won't get X-rayed every time I
> go to the airport.
> Tracy
>
>> Everyone will proceed through security in their own way.  I, for
>> example,
>> get to the opening of the standard portal, drop the harness and tell
>> Africa
>> to sit and stay, drop the leash and then go through the detector.  Once
>> on
>> the other side I call her.
>>
>> The advantage of this approach is that I do not set off the detector and
>> thus generally never face a more rigorous patdown or body scan.  Africa
>> comes through the detector and always gets a full patdown which is never
>> long enough for her taste.
>>
>> As someone else said on this list don't make the new proceedures more
>> than
>> what they are.  If you don't set off detectors you usually won't get
>> searched anyway.  Act friendly, engage the TSA folks in a friendly way,
>> and
>> you won't have a problem.
>>
>> I have a goal every time I go to the airport of getting TSA people to
>> laugh.
>> It works and I don't have problems with them.
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Marsha Drenth
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 6:12 AM
>> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
>> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Full Body Scanning Machines
>>
>> Don't know how this is supposed to work. Is it dangerous for the dogs to
>> go
>> into the scanner?
>>
>> Guess I will see how all this works. Joe and I are flying to Texas for
>> thanksgiving. I am a bit anxious, but not much I can do about it.
>> Yesterday,
>> while on the way to school, there was a radio program with women who
>> flew,
>> and was having the "pat-down". But from her accounts the "pat-down" is
>> more
>> like being sexually assaulted. And I thought it was just her account of
>> the
>> events but, there were other women calling into the program, saying the
>> same
>> thing. That for women who are being patted-down, the people who touch
>> your
>> very private areas, and even under the breasts. I understand the need
>> for
>> security at the airport, But. But. But. This is in my opinion; you can
>> take
>> it or leave it, a clear violation of our privacy.
>>
>> And from what I heard and have read, is if someone sets off the metal
>> detector, then you're "patted-down" or full body scanned. Now who of us
>> with
>> our dogs, is not going to set off the metal detectors. I usually go
>> through
>> the metal detector, without my dog. But because she sets it off, I get
>> searched too, not just her. Doesn't make much sense to me.
>>
>> Like I said, just my two cents.
>>
>> Marsha
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Toni Whaley
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 11:39 PM
>> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
>> Subject: [nagdu] Full Body Scanning Machines
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Does anyone know what the rules are for blind people with canes or dogs
>> now
>> that the full body machine has been installed in most airports? What do
>> we
>> do with the dog while we're being scanned? or do we have to submit to
>> the
>> more intrusive patdown?
>>
>> Toni
>>
>>
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